• spujb@lemmy.cafe
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    7 months ago

    good to see content on here taking this seriously. seen one too many comments making light of the situation for the partisan clout.

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    7 months ago

    From a humble rectangle of wood, framed onto brick stanchions that kept it hovering several feet above the ground

    The water washed through buildings downtown at head height

    By the time those surging waters sloshed back into the lake, flowing south again to overcome the levees around New Orleans, the community of Liberty Bayou, for the most part, had already been destroyed. Mary Pichon Battle, who’d packed just three days’ worth of clothes and left a lifetime’s worth of belongings, had little to come home to. The house was unlivable.

    Add height. Costs something, but also not new technology.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilt_house

    https://www.pinterest.com/pin/458452437051064229/

    https://www.pinterest.ph/pin/110690103326676705/

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      7 months ago

      I’ve always thought it’d be cool to have a house on stilts in the coastal Georgia salt marsh, but I’m pretty sure it’s legally very difficult to be allowed to build on wetlands. Sooner or later these folks in Louisiana are going to end up with a similar problem as what was once usually dry land becomes usually a body of water.